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Although it doesn’t look like it, this is a post WWII design, with an aluminum body and tubular frame. Its Standard engine’s typical flat head was modified by Harry Weslake and shared with Jaguar (his Weslake Ford V8s won Le Mans powering the seminal GT40s in the mid to late 1960s). The Triumph 1800 Roadster was the last production car with a Dickey seat (rumble seat with it’s own windscreen). It has a top speed of about 75 mph, and a four speed transmission.
Beautiful, and significant car. The 1949 Cadillac had the first modern OHV, lightweight V8, with 331 cu. in. 160 hp, plus the excellent four-speed Hydramatic automatic transmission. It took the other American manufacturers as long as six more years to catch up. Love the fastback. 
This car is a build for a customer that supplied the chopped 1949 Mercury. Mercury Charlie’s staff upgraded it in only two months. Powered by a multi-carb Chevy 350 V8 and adorned with a 1953 Desoto grille. Another extraordinary accomplishment by Mercury Charlie. These guys are for real, Charlie has been doing this for four plus decades.
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